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on the northwest side of Hoornkil (Lewes Creek),
called “Fort Oplandt,” where the colony remained,
after the departure of Heyes for Holland, under the
charge of Gillis Hosset, commissary of the ship which
brought them out. The settlement, however, was of
short duration, for, a misunderstanding arising with
the Indians, the colonists were massacred. In 1632
another voyage was undertaken by De Vries in person,
who visited the destroyed plantation, and sailed up the
Delaware to Fort Nassau, but returned to Europe the
following year without attempting any further
settlement on our river, and in 1635 the patroons transferred
their title to Zwaanendal (including in that name their
land on both sides of Delaware) to the West India
Company. Peter Minuit returned to Holland in 1632,
and was succeeded as Director-General by Wouter van
Twiller, who retained the office till 1637. During his
administration Arent Corssen served as commissary at
Fort Nassau, and is said to have purchased from the
Indians a tract of land on the Schuylkill, where
afterwards, in 1648, a fort was erected called Beversrede.
No other event is mentioned in the records of this
period except that in 1635 a certain George Holmes,
with about a dozen English colonists from Connecticut,
attempted to make a settlement on our river, but,
failing in an attack on Fort Nassau, were taken prisoners
by the Dutch and sent to Manhattan. In March, 1638,
Willem Kieft, the third Director-General of New
Nether land, arrived at Fort Amsterdam, and almost
simultaneously appeared upon the Delaware two vessels
full of emigrants from another country of Europe,
hitherto unrepresented in the New World. This was
the colony from Sweden, which formed what may be
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